The Progressive NOSQL Tutorials are unique blend of product and experience mixed and tempered with theory and practice. This annual NOSQL conference will be spread over three days at the Skills Matter eXchange, the London developer community centre. Aside from the keynote talks from respective NOSQL industry members, each day will consist of three talks in the morning, each presenting a contemporary NOSQL use-case or technology. In the afternoon sessions, you will have the option to choose from one of three hands-on practical tutorials, which match the morning talks.

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Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on graph database server technology and writes open source software.

Tom is a Technical Architect at The Hut Group, which means he works within a development team and comes up with solutions that lead us towards our overall architecture goal. He learnt everything he knows about IT from his Oceanography MSc.

Chris Harris: Starting with schema design and JSON, in this talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials, Chris Harris will quickly build a model and the use cases around it and then progress to the automatic sharding and replication features built into MongoDB to how how MongoDB can scale with your application needs.

Chris Harris is EMEA Solution Engineer at Hortonworks where he spends his life architecting Apache Hadoop projects for enterprises across EMEA. Prior to Hortonworks, Chris worked as Solution Architect at 10gen where he was responsible for driving Mon

David Mytton: This talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials will examine MongoDB to point out important deployment considerations. It will include how to scale reads and writes, bottlenecks (and how to resolve them) and how to deploy redundantly across clusters of machines.

David Mytton, founder of Server Density, has been a PHP/Python programmer for 10 years. His code and server infrastructure now processes in excess of 1bn documents (10TB data) each month, using MongoDB extensively for the primary data store deployed

This hands-on session will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based checkin application using MongoDB. The talk will cover the basics of MongoDB's document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.

Chris Harris is EMEA Solution Engineer at Hortonworks where he spends his life architecting Apache Hadoop projects for enterprises across EMEA. Prior to Hortonworks, Chris worked as Solution Architect at 10gen where he was responsible for driving Mon

Learning about developing with Couchbase Server will start by examining Couchbase and then creating a basic Couchbase Server cluster with two nodes demonstrating how easy it is to scale and expand your cluster performance. With a server installation in place, we'll look at how clients interact with the cluster and perform basic database operations across the cluster as a whole. By building an interactive application, the fundamentals of data writes, updates and reads will be covered, including

Jim Webber: In this talk on Managing Highly Connected Data in Neo4j for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Jim Webber will lead discussion of how connected data is driving new classes of innovative applications and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of common NOSQL families for dealing handling it.

Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on graph database server technology and writes open source software.

Nicki Watt & Michal Bachman: In this talk, Nicki Watt and Michal Bachman present the lessons learned (and being learned) on an active Neo4J project - Opigram.
Nicki and Michal will outline their usage of Neo4j, and some of the challenges they have encountered, as well as the approaches and implications taken to address them.

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials on RavenDB: A 2nd generation document database, Ayende Rahien we will get you familiar with the basic concept of RavenDB, and give you everything you need to jump into the warm waters of RavenDB. We will use real-world examples to demonstrate the way of thinking required when approaching a data model to be persisted with RavenDB.

Oren Eini is the author of Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform, and is also a leading figure in other well known open source projects including NHibernate, RavenDB,the Rhino Tools Suite and the Castle project.

Phil Jones is the founder of Orange Lightning, a Bristol based company offering services in website, database and software development who specialising in using Microsoft technologies and solutions. Phil works daily with small to medium companies to

Neo4j is an esoteric and powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains from finance to social, and telecoms to geospatial. This intensive half-day progressive Neo4J tutorial is a hands-on practical session to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and Neo4j.

Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on graph database server technology and writes open source software.

Oren Eini is the author of Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform, and is also a leading figure in other well known open source projects including NHibernate, RavenDB,the Rhino Tools Suite and the Castle project.

Matt Heitzenroder: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Matt considers that many businesses already know how to handle eventual consistency, and provides examples of conflict resolution taken from the real world.

As a Professional Services Consulting Engineer at SugarCRM, Matt Heitzenroder first encountered a distributed systems problem when rolling out a disconnected, wide-area client for a centralized CRM system. His client, a multi-national Fortune 200 pha

Tom Wilkie: Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. It combines the best bits from Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo papers, has a very active community, and is widely used at many large companies. In this talk we will cover the features unique to Cassandra and explain how it achieves things such as tuneable consistency, write-optimisation, and high availability. We will discuss the strengths (and weaknesses) of Cassandra, what it is commonly used for, and how you might use it in your application.

Malcolm Box: Tellybug uses Cassandra to power the audience interaction for shows like X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Malcolm Box will look at some of the challenges and how we've solved them in production.

Malcolm is the CTO and co-founder of Tellybug, a London startup focused on making TV more entertaining, social and interactive.
He's responsible for the development of apps and server systems to support TV audiences for some of the mo

Ian Plosker is the CTO and cofounder of Orchestrate.io, a service that eliminates the need to run databases. Prior to Orchestrate.io, Ian worked at Basho Technologies, the makers of the open source database Riak.

This workshop will involve deploying and configuring a cluster of Cassandra nodes on EC2, designing a schema, constructing a script to import data and writing a front-end to visualise the data. We will use the twitter sample firehose, which returns a random sample of all public statuses.

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The Skills Matter eXchange

Located just a five minute walk from Barbican and Old Street Stations and a 15 minute walk from Kings Cross and St Pancras Stations, the Skills Matter eXchange provides a great selection of event spaces with all the facilities you need for a vibrant, interactive and successful Tech Event.

Chris Harris: Starting with schema design and JSON, in this talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials, Chris Harris will quickly build a model and the use cases around it and then progress to the automatic sharding and replication features built into MongoDB to how how MongoDB can scale with your...

David Mytton: This talk for the Progressive NOSQL tutorials will examine MongoDB to point out important deployment considerations. It will include how to scale reads and writes, bottlenecks (and how to resolve them) and how to deploy redundantly across clusters of machines.

Learning about developing with Couchbase Server will start by examining Couchbase and then creating a basic Couchbase Server cluster with two nodes demonstrating how easy it is to scale and expand your cluster performance. With a server installation in place, we'll look at how clients...

This hands-on session will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based checkin application using MongoDB. The talk will cover the basics of MongoDB's document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.

Jim Webber: In this talk on Managing Highly Connected Data in Neo4j for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Jim Webber will lead discussion of how connected data is driving new classes of innovative applications and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of common NOSQL families for dealing...

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials on RavenDB: A 2nd generation document database, Ayende Rahien we will get you familiar with the basic concept of RavenDB, and give you everything you need to jump into the warm waters of RavenDB. We will use real-world...

Matt Heitzenroder: In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Matt considers that many businesses already know how to handle eventual consistency, and provides examples of conflict resolution taken from the real world.

Tom Wilkie: Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. It combines the best bits from Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo papers, has a very active community, and is widely used at many large companies. In this talk we will cover the features unique...

Malcolm Box: Tellybug uses Cassandra to power the audience interaction for shows like X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. In this talk for the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials, Malcolm Box will look at some of the challenges and how we've solved them in production.

This workshop will involve deploying and configuring a cluster of Cassandra nodes on EC2, designing a schema, constructing a script to import data and writing a front-end to visualise the data. We will use the twitter sample firehose, which returns a random sample of all public statuses.